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We'll look back at social graphs and say that it is a mistake to use the social graph to approximate an interest graph. The people you now don't necessarily reflect your interests.

Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks.

But of course, if you dig deeper, it’s really how it works.

Taste figures much more prominently when it comes to Apple Music and other similar endeavors. The DJ-focused Beats 1 “radio” station, for example, is clearly intended to make certain songs popular, not simply identify popularity after it is already attained. This in particular is a natural fit for Apple, and is the part of Apple Music I am most int... See more

In web 3.0, we’re seeing this notion of bi-directional relationships between creators and consumers. It’s incredibly powerful and benefits both sides.

In the future, either you're telling a computer what to do or a computer is telling you what to do—and you don't want to be on the wrong side of that transaction. If you're an Uber driver, the computer's telling you what to do. You're following orders. Your days are numbered in that job because you're not in a creative job. On the other hand, if yo... See more

The DoorDash of today isn’t the end state DoorDash. DoorDash is aggregating consumers, Dashers and merchants on its platform and adding great value to each party. This paves the path for the company to one day dominate last-mile logistics and upsell their customers with higher-margin products and services. Each new vertical DoorDash makes available... See more

Twitter’s incompetence didn’t simply make Facebook’s advertising business look more dominant than it should have; it led all of us — including the FTC — to miss the point that friends and family was Social Networking 1.0: something imported from the analog world that, as time goes on, will be viewed as inferior to the far richer universe that is So... See more